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-r jt iff The weather EntertainmentArts August 18, 1976 Minneapolis Tribune Aug. 19, 1976 Readings for Wednesday, MINNEAPOLIS Rudlngu Humidity al 7 p.m. it pel PrMlpltttlon 2 houri mdiro 7 p.m. 0 lnehe Total Jn. 1 date 137 lnch.

Sun rim a.m., itl 8:25 p.m. Mean phase Last Quarter. Rites 12:37 a.m. Sell 3.49 p.m. COMPARATIVE TIMPIRATUHIS: High It al p.m.

Low 70 al 6-7 a.m. Year ago high 76, low 54. All-time high lor August II, 98 in 1976. All-lime low lor Aug. 18, 46 In 1963 and 1967.

Wednesday's temoeratures: a.m. 12 3 4 5 News from home is WELY specialty temp. 73 71 71 71 71 70 p.m. temp 1 94 95 97 98 97 95 Forecasts Twin Cities: Mostly fair, hoi and humid through Friday. Winds today will be from the soulh at 15 to 25 miles per hour.

Highs both days from 96 to 100. Low tonight in the low 70s. MlnnetotatVarlable cloudiness with a chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms in the extreme northwest through Friday, clear to partly cloudy and continued hoi and h.ir oer the rest of fhe slate Highs both days from 90 to 102 I owl lonight from the mid 60s mi iinu 'w. Narth Dakota: Variable cloudiness with scattered thundershowers through lonight. Highs today from the mid 80s north to the low 90s southeast.

Parity cloudy Friday wilh higns from the mid 80s north lo near 90 south. South Dakota: Partly cloudy wilh isolated afternoon and west lonighl easl. Iowa: Highs Lows Highs lonighl In Highs 1 Tom Van Etta Today's regional weather forecasts mM kk Ii 19 1978 OFa cloudy Partly cloudy Numbers indicate range of high temperatures EH Rain Snow Fog El Showers SDri2zle 0 Freezing dnzzle (iD Thunder showers Winnipeg i International Lake Grand vv-- Fwks (J 9095 8595 5'95 Duluth I Brainerd uo95 A 95100 90100 095 Aberdeen St Cloud Twin) 100105 (- ill llWill Jones after last night Ely, Minn. To the Michigan gang at Joe shack," intones the youthful voice on the car radio. "Pick up your relatives at the public landing at 7 p.m.

Joe." This isn't citizens band radio or any kind of ordinary message or paging service. This is commercial radio station WELY, the only station in Ely, and the only radio station can pick up all day long on my car radio or, for that matter, on my cheap clock radio at the borrowed hay-fever retreat just outside Because of the iron deposits here, all-powerful WCCO radio does not boom in the way it does in other parts of the state. Not until late at night, when atmospheric conditions change the way radio 'signals bounce, does a faint Franklin Hobbs voice from WCCO get admitted to the wilderness listening spectrum. During the day, for owners of ordinary radios, it's WELY or nothing. The folk at WCCO speak, of dominating the market.

In this corner of the Iron Range, WELY simply IS the radio market. And such a market. Country music. Middle-of-the-road music. Gospel music, Pop music.

Ethnic music. We are in the car on the way into Ely for a late lunch, and I flick on the radio. Good god, a Varsovienne. I immediately transported to memories of a country dance in South Dakota when a sheep rancher's beautiful teen-age daughter tried to teach the seven-step to a young klutz from The Cities, who appropriately attacked the dance with seven left feet. Ms.

Jones does not understand why my eyes mist up. "A little something for everybody," the owner of WELY puts it when I meet him later. "To grandma and grandpa at Timberwolf Song," the young voice from WELY continues experimentally punching syllables in the random way trendy network news folk do, for reasons having more to do with variety than importance. "Arrived home at 6 llSSSRStn 95100 95100 95100 Wbrthinqton RocheslerfLa IT 100105o Cross. t-ip 3Yo.

925 198iV 95100 'Mason-' LS City COOUINO UNITS AS OF August 17, Cooling units are used In estimating tuel consumption. The dallv ligure rellecK the degrees bv which average lemperalures went above 65, the point at which artificial cooling is generally considered necessary. Cumulative figures report cooling units since Mav 1 Daily cooling unlit, 10. Same dale last year, 0. Season total, 706.

Season total on same date last year, 739. 6 7 8 9 10 11 Nnnn 70 71 77 84 88 91 8 9 10 11 Midn. 93 89 87 85 82 80 evening thunderstorms west, mostly clear east through Friday. Highs both davs from the mid 90s to between too and 105 central and east. Lows from the upper 60s west to the low and mid 70s Mostly ciea-', hot and humid through Friday.

both itu i ca; near 100 west. tonight from the 60s east to the 70s west. Wisconsin: Mostly fair, hot and humid through Friday. lodav from the upper 80s4o the mid 90s. Lows from the mid 60s to the low 70s.

Highs Friday the 90s. Montana, East of the Divide: Partly cloudy with scattered showers and thuiJerslorms through Friday both days from Ihe 70s west to the 80s easl Lows lonighl from the 40s west to Ihe 50s east. Upper Midwest high temperature reading in the 12-hour period ending al 7 p.m. Wednesday. Low temperature reading in the IB-hour period ending al 7 p.m.

Wednesday. Precipitation in the 24-hour period ending at 7 p.m. Wednesday. MINNESOTA 70 63 60 63 78 65 70 65 60 65 66 62 65 75 63 67 62 55 Twin Cities Alexandria Bemidli Dululh Inlerntl Falls Redwood Falls Rochester SI. Cloud WISCONSIN Eau Claire 96 La Crosse 91 Madison 87 Wausau 88 NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck 102 Devils Lake Dickinson Fargo Grand Forks Jamestown Minol Williston SOUTH DAKOTA Aberdeen Huron Lemmon Mobridge Pierre Rapid Citv Sioux Falls Watertown T-Trace Canada 104 102 96 101 105 96 cities 41 46 .13 50 54 50 48 .54 50 63 .02 -Trace Calgarv Edmonton Montreal Ottawa Pegina Thunder Bav Toronto Vancouver Winnipeg Pcpn.

88- 85 90 94 75 87 85 87 94 93 86 87 98 82 80 72 86 90 78 92 68 90 89 68 87 U4 World Observations made day, August 18, 1976 69 85 54 82 City Aberdeen Amsterdarq Ankara Anligua Athens Auckland -Berlin Beirut Birmingham Bonn Brussels Cairo Casablanca Copenhagen Dublin Geneva Hong Kong Lisbon London Madrid Malta Manila Moscow New Delhi Nice Oslo Paris Peking Rome Saigon Seoul Sofia Stockholm Sydney Taipei Teheran Tel Aviv Tokyo Tunis Vienna Warsaw Time 1 a m. 1 a.m. 3 a.m. 8 p.m. 2 am.

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1 a.m. 1 a.m. 1 a.m. Temp 50 59 63 81 77 54 57 6) 1 59. 55 63 72 73 63 59 55 82 64 60 83 72 90 64 80 72 96 71 96 73 86 66 82 74 100 53 79 53 68 49 77 85 59 84 6 64 106 64 75 63 77 62 86 75 61 52 50 24 77 70 79 72 1.25 61 57, Latin America Twin Cities air pollution indexes Airborne amounts of sullur dioxide (trom coal and oil burning), carbon monoxkJe (from motor vehicles), particulates Idusl) and oxidants tozone) are recorded lor the 24 hours ending al 2 yesterday and leported as low, moderate, high or unhealthy.

Readings are taken downtown Minneapolis, downtown St Paul and at University Avenue and Hwy 280. St Paul Highest levels are shown, along with statons reporting such levels. Sulfur dioxide ICarbon monoxide Particulates Oxidants Lpw Moderate Moderate Downtown St Paul Downtown Downtown St. Paul Minneapolis Weather in other major U.S. Today's Forecast Tomorrow's Forecast Yesterday Citv Sky LO Sky Lo HI Albuquerque Amarillo Anchorage Asheviiie Atlanta Atlantic Citv Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boston BuHalo Casper Charleston, S.C.

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sunny 62 90 74 G4 65 71 65 67 71 72 63 73 56 50 50 SB 64 59 71 65 57 68 78 88 53 4 53 73 73 87 65 87 Washington sunny 85 85 66 60 85 83 87 75 88 81 86 81 83 77 90 88 90 93 86 93 90 87 61 75 92 91 91 88 75 90 5B announcer talent from the local high school and Vermilion Community College. "We got a Smokey the Bear Award from the forest service after the big forest fire at Jean-ette Lake a few years ago," he said. "And we just got a Golden Mike award for the live program we do from the nursing home for an hour every Friday at 9:15 a.m. It's called 'Memories' that's the song everybody sings to open the program. There's a great nurse who emcees.

The residents do the whole program themselves. "When people want to find their dog or their kids up here, they don't call the police department, they call us. Our success rating for finding things including people is 80 or 90 percent. But our most important service, I think, is a reverse kind of thing, where a guy goes out fishing and doesn't hear a message and knows things are all right at home." Somewhere in there I thought of a message that probably ought to be broadcast to the wilderness: Radio is alive and well in Ely and probably doing what God intended it to do even before he invented Howard Viken. William Redfield Actor i Redfield dies at 49 Associated Press New York, N.Y.

Actor William Redfield, who appeared in the recent Oscar-winning film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," is dead at 49. He died Tuesday of a respiratory disease complicated by leukemia at St. Clare's Hospital in New He began his acting career at the age of 9 in a Broadway musical, "Swing Your Lady." His career included more than 2,000 appearances on the stage, in films, on television and on radio. Other films Redfield appeared in included "Death Wish" with Charles Bronson, "For Pete's Sake" with Barbra Streisand and "Hot Rock" with Robert Redford. He was a founding member of the Actor's Studio with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan.

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825 (312 1021 Henffpin Downtown 335-21S7 nil. iking Shakespeare festival makes slow progress in Alabama free. WELY has a number of voices, but I'm intrigued by the earnest young one I've heard most often. I drive out the road to Babbitt in the direction of the WELY tower on a hill at the south edge of town, follow the arrow on a sign nailed to a garage beside a nice Richfield type rambler, and find myself in a basement where there's a complete radio station with an announcer's nest and control panel, record library, wire-news printers and executive office. This is all in a space that otherwise might have been a recreation room with sauna.

The announcer I have been hearing so often turns out to be Tom Van Etta, a blond 15-year-old sports nut wearing a short-sleeved Ely High School jersey wo. la, and the son of a dentist. Tom has taken some speech courses and may or may not be Interested in a radio-TV career, but he's been a WELY announcer for a year. An older brother, John, had the same job before him for several years and then went off to medical school. The Van Ettas live a couple of blocks away from the studio, which is in the basement of the home of Vincent T.

Hallett, a real-estate man who has operated WELY as a sideline for the past 17 years. Tom explains the Emergency and Personal Message Program. In the emergency side of the operation, it's a way to let travelers in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area know of death or illness at home. More often, the messages are of the got-home-safely variety, often joking and whimsical, from vacation parties which have split up. Canoe outfitters and guides know of the service, and visitors pick up fast.

He'd had phone calls from Indiana and Connecticut in the past week with messages to be broadcast to the wilderness. Hallett, a pleasant bald fellow with a black mustache, said the radio station is often the only way to reach people traveling in the boundary waters and storms, forest fires and power failures are peak times for the message service. He makes a point of hiring people Shakespeare wrote his plays for," Piatt said. "Most of them have not read many of his plays, and they don't go to the theater very much. But they still laugh at the jokes and puns and they pick up on the rhythm of the plays in the way that a more sophisticated audience wouldn't.

"They come to 'King Lear' and they don't know, section by section, what's going to happen. So it hits them. You can hear people sobbing at the wrenching moments." Gov. George Wallace, an Alabami-an who is not -a member of the artsy crowd, has become one of the festival's "strong supporters. He shook loose $8,000 in state and federal funds for the company this year.

After an unfavorable review of one of the plays in a Birmingham newspaper, he telephoned Mrs. Ayers from Montgomery to advise her to follow his practice and pay no attention to the newspapers. Almost every play now attracts people from Atlanta and other towns in the region. The festival board would like to take next season's plays on tour, if enough money could be raised. A number of organizations and community leaders solicit and donate money for the project, in the same way that the arts have always been supported in the South.

But most of the financial support has come from three or four Anniston businesses and families who have contributed perhaps $103,000 since 1972. H. Brandt Ayers, editor and publisher of The Anniston Star and the husband 6f the festival president, says the festival has been established in a variation of an old Southern theme attracting capital from the North. "What we have here is Yankee artistic capital," he said. "The South is a deficit region in terms of artistic capital." Anniston, he said, is being enriched by Piatt and his Shakes-peareans from the North and West.

He predicted that an entire generation of Anniston children would be changed. "Shakespeare is going to be to the children of Anniston what the old Noble and Cameo movie theaters were to me when I was growing up," he fid. Temperatures are overnight lows and daytime highs. indicates temperatures below zero. Reported precipitation is for the 24 hours ending at 7 P.m.

yesterday (Minneapolis lime). Indicates information unavailable from National Weather Service. indicates (race. p.m. Had a good trip.

All is well. Thank you for everything. Carrie, Susie and Mark." Then there's the message that has been on WELY three times a day for about a week: "To the Mason Birds on Burntside Lake. We won't be able to come up. The thesis is taking longer than expected.

Rich will be up later in the week. Will send details in a letter. Dick and Mary Linda." This is what WELY calls The Emergency and Personal Message Program. Anybody who phones, wires, mails or brings in by hand a message of any kind can have it read on the air three times a day, 7:25 a.m., 12:25 p.m., and 6:25 p.m., for as many days as he chooses, up to a month. And it's ence appeal and quality.

The company has not hesitated to perform Shakespeare's most difficult norms, and it has done them well. Sunday night's performance tore and wrenched the audience, and when Charles Antalosky took his bows for "Lear," they rose to their feet shouting. Whether the festival can continue to grow, and ultimately survive, will probably be determined in the next two or three years. "The main problem is money, as with any cultural endeavor," said William J. Davis, a 'textile executive and transplanted New Yorker who is chairman of the festival board.

The festival might never have been attempted if the founders and the town had realized what thfy were doing. The original force was a brash, brilliant drtec-' tor from Beverly Hills whose innocence was as great as Anni-stoa's. Martin L. Piatt had just graduated from Carnegie Tech in 1971 and had answered an ad for director of Anniston's little theater. When he arrived, he looked around and realized that the near est of North America's 16 Shakespearean theaters was about 1,000 miles away.

That left an obvious Opening. Because he had always dreamed of running such a theater, he started one. He was 22 years old. Piatt went to New York in 1972 and persuaded a number of his theater friends to come to Anniston and work for a pittance. They roomed and boarded free with sympathetic Anniston residents the first summer.

The company now has a budget of $80,000. It has about 40 actors and technical personnel. Most are from the North and West. They work here during the summer, then move to other jobs the remainder of the year. Piatt, knowing that his audiences are not as familiar with Shakespeare as a New York audience might be, directs the plays as they might have been in Shakespeare's day for people seeing them for the first time.

He seems to be making a little headway in attracting people not. educated in the arts. "We hive here the kind- of Asuncion 8 p.m, 72 Buenos Aires. 8 pm. 50 Lima 7 p.m.

64 Montevideo 9 pm. 63 Rio De Janeiro9 p.m. 79 Highest temperatures recorded in the 24-hour period ending al noon Wednesday, -August 18, Acapuico 84 Barbados 86 Bermuda 88 Bogala 1 68 Culiacan 95 Freeport 89 Guadalaiara 82 Guadeloupe 86 Havana 83 Kingston 89 Kingston 89 Montego Bav Maza'lan 89 Merida 95 Mexico City 74 Monterrey 89 Nassau 89 San Juan PR 88 St Kitts 88 St. Thomas VI -90 Tegucigalpa 88 Trinidad 88 Vera Crui 89 By Roy Reed New York Times Service Anniston. Ala.

William Shakespeare is gaining vti Richard Petty in Alabama. When Anniston established the Alabama Shakespeare Festival four years ago last month, 'the unfortunately entitled first production, "A Comedy of Errors" played to an audience of 25. The annual Talladega 500 was run a few days later on an automobile race track down the road and drew 68,000. One Sunday recently, halfway through the festival's fifth season, "King Lear" attracted 364 people an increase of 1,356 percent over that first production in 1972. The attendance at the Talladega 500 the same day was 74,000, an increase of a mere 8 percent in the same period.

Shakespeare's managers were delighted. And not simply because -of the 364 who turned out to grapple with his most demanding play on a lazy Sunday evening. Those 364 playgoers pushed the total attendance at this summer's festival over, the 6,000 mark. The company expects the 1976 attendance to exceed last year's 10,000 by the time its closes the season with "The Winter's Tale" Saturday. "I never believed we would be where we are in five years," Josephine Ayers, the president of the festival, Said Tuesday.

"I think we've brought something to this community that's unique, and I think the community realizes it. Now, all we have to do Is wait for the community to fork over some bread." Her observation sums up the promise and the problem of establishing serious theater in a region that traditionally has taken actors somewhat less seriously than auto racers such as Richard Petty. Anniston's festival is the only theater in the South devoted solely to classical and Shakespearean plays. It Is one of the few professional theaters of any kind in the It is struggling to grow in a town of 50,000 people, which is generally considered far too small to support such an ambitious project. But jt has not only survived, it has grown steadily in both audi Today's National Weather Service forecast Supoiied by the Associated Press Figures show high temperatures expected today ERato rrjJJjShowert Foul water to go down the drain today Water in Minneapolis should be back to normal today after the recent problems with foul taste and odor, according to officials for the city waterworks.

Charles Taflin, superintendent of plant operations, said last night that the foul-tasting water had disappeared from most areas of the city and should be completely gone by today. The problem, which began last week, was caused by anabaena, the same blue-green algae responsible for the more serious water crisis earlier this summer. Officials were better prepared this time, though, and the waterworks was able to begin treatment earli-er. As a result, Taflin said, the taste wasn't nearly as bad. this time, and the waterworks received only 10 to 20 complaints a day instead of the 300 a day received during the earlier crisis.

i Taflin said it was "quite that the waterworks would have to contend with another batch of algae before the onset of cold weather. OccludedSSS Stationary Airflow 2 Minnesotans die of traffic injuries, The deaths of two Minnesotans In state traffic accidents have raised the 1976 highway toll to 455, 15 fewer than a year ago. The victims were identified as: Christopher Dahle, 14, Sargeant. Gilbert Roles, 50, Swanville. Dahle, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Kenneth Dahle, died in an Austin, hospital Tuesday of injuries suffered in an accident Aug? 12 when the minibike he was riding and a panel truck collided on a Mower County road 11 miles south of Austin. Roles was killed when the car he was driving and a farm tractor pulling two trailers of corn silage collided on Hwy. 27, 3 miles west of Little Falls, yesterday afternoon. The driver of the tractor, Lori Ann Stockdale, 16, Rte.

2, Little Falls, suffered minor back injuries, polics said..